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The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [1] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions , the information in this article may be ...
A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection. The most recent Louisiana inmate to be put to death, Gerald Bordelon, waived his appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence. [1]
List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976; List of death row inmates in the United States who have exhausted their appeals
Twenty-nine states have either abolished the death penalty or paused executions. Last year nearly every death row inmate in Louisiana asked for clemency — the commutation of a death sentence to ...
In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as ...
Since 1722, more than 650 people have been executed under the death penalty in Louisiana, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Louisiana has 61 inmates on death row: Here's why no ...
The male death row is at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish. The female death row is at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel. [6] Executions in Louisiana are currently performed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [7] This is specified under the law. Louisiana's method of execution is lethal ...
Louisiana moved a step closer to resuming death penalty executions for the first time in more than a decade after a House committee advanced a bill to expand the number of legal methods the state ...